Random toy thread!
 

I figured most of the people that hit the general discussion don't care about toys, so I thought it'd be nice to have a general toy thread here, especially for toy lines that take a lot from the TMNT like Toxic Crusaders, Ghostbusters, Biker Mice, Bucky O'hare, Earthworm Jim, etc... Or toy lines that TMNT took elements from like Masters of the Universe, GI Joe, etc...

Just to talk about random toys in general including random bits from the Ninja Turtle line as well as long as it doesn't fall under something in the stickied topics, or Post your finds/buys, and take pics of random toys in your collection. If the mods think this is a bad idea then feel free to close the thread.... but you'll make baby Jesus cry :cry:

Thought I'd post this to start it out:
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/7...lesmotu4ov.jpg

Funny similarities :)

Let's not forget the same skulpt used for multiple figures....:P

Random Toy thread ehh...hmmm well here we go.

G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO.(Hasbro, 1982-1994.)

It had it all. Complex and unique characters who's back-stories leaped off the package at you with the help of the greatly written "File Cards"(written by Joe Comic writer Larry Hama). Cool heroes, awsome villains, packed with accessories, impressive poseability, 12 points on 3 3/4-inch figures!, Ninjas! The action figures alone were enough to keep you playing for hours, but the inclusion of realistic military vehicles from tanks to jeeps, and some never thought of with great detail, firing missiles, etc, playsets were a whole nother story, the two greatest, The U.S.S FLAGG for the Joes and the Terror Drome for the baddies, both giant bases that fit more figures then many kids had, with a crap load of different features that blew kids minds. It's one of the greatest toy lines of all time and a personal favorite and brought out one of the coolest characters ever, "Snake-Eyes".

Is this along the lines of whats supposed to be in this thread? :-?

Yeah totally. Just talk about random toys. Post sightings that you thought were awesome, favorite figures, pics of your collections, whatever.

I too love GI Joe. They were awesome because of the size and price point you could build a plastic army that didn't suck unlike those green non poseable army men. I have a decent size collection, mostly of the older stuff, though I like the JvC,Spytroopers,VvV,DTC stuff too.

I saw this awesome Gremlins Mohawk figure from Neca's cult classics the other day, it rocks!
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/2...15264189re.jpg

Neca's cult classics line rocks, wave 3 is going to include DIE HARD: JOHN MCCLANE! I've waited for a figure of Bruce Willis from that movie for what seems like ever. Finally getting one, I hope it does't suck.

I've been buying a lot of Star Wars ROTS figures, anyone else get caught up in that line with all the hype around it?

NECA is sweet, the cult classics line is really cool, love the detail put into the figures so much.

As for ROTS figures, I didn't go after everyone, but one of them that I did make sure I got was this one.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a98...nBlade/008.jpg

Pure goodness, sculpt, articulation, accessories, everything's great.

Yeah I have that figure, best Obi Wan figure probably ever. I really like the ball joint hip. I don't like the boots though, you can see the problem in that pic. The join that movies the feet isn't colored and looks tan whereas the rest of the boot is brown. It just looks funky. Otherwise he's great, and probbaly the best figure to come out of ROTS.

I also liked the VOTC line because that had more memorable characters like Luke, Han, Chewie, Lando, Leia, Darth, the droids, etc...

Hell yes and there will be more VOTC style figures in '06's Saga Collection.

first pics of the new venom from SMC 16
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a25/edwin_hkc/vm4.jpg

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a25/edwin_hkc/vm3.jpg

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a25/edwin_hkc/vm2.jpg

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a25/edwin_hkc/vm.jpg
it's all gravy

I have the one on the left. That new venom looks too upper body bulky, and seems to have a lot of garbage detailing whereas the one on the far right is nice and smooth. Unfortunately that one looks too much like Sabretooth, otherwise it's the best venom.

My favorite figure from Marvel Legends is still the first wave Iron Man. Anyone else notice how after wave 1 or 2 they started using ball joints for the hips, whereas the Ironman and Captain america have a different type of joint there that looks more normal?

one word, VOLTRON

Funny, I got figures of Lance, Hunk, and Pidge on my desk right now, and I'm sure at least three or four of the lions are in the basement.

Anyone remember Gargoyles? That toon/toyline needs a revival already. Done in the new action cartoon animation style (TMNT, The Batman, etc...) It could be really awesome. I just want super poseable Gargoyles, that would be sweet!

I remember Gargoyles. Those figures were really well done for their time. I remember wheh I was real little and I had this guardian type of person (think childcare but at someone's house) and there was this other kid there and he brought his Gargoyles action figures whenever he could. We spent hours playin' with 'em and spendin' time together. Too bad I only have one Gargoyle figure. The Goliath one with the armor and the projectile gauntlets. I don't remeber the exact name of him.

Anyone remeber the X-Men figures from the '90s? I really enjoyed playin' with those figures especially the variants and the robot fighter ones. Those figures were great when they came out. Today I'm still lookin' around for a couple of the figures I've seen on websites that look really appealin' to me. I bought Weapon X Wolverine (1992) from the last toy show I went to. He was cheap and I'm glad some of the more intrestin' figures are still out there.

Yep, I had every X-Men, didn't get many of the "other" characters except for Cable and Deadpool, etc, I had the Blackbird jet, Wolverines jeep, the 13 in. Sentinel, The HQ playset. The figures were pretty good for the day, nice detail and articulation. Major part of my toy play in the early 90's.

As were the Spider-man Animated Series toy's, I had all them too.

I had a CRAPload of the 90's x-men figures, still do somewhere probably. I boughty 3 of them at a convention not too long ago. Wolverine (red and orange), Deadpool, and pre x-men tas and ironman tas Ironman with removable armor. This brought back a lot of memories, thanks for the reminder. I need to go back and get some more of my childhood figures.

I've actually never owned a Gargoyles figure, I used to loathe them because I thought they were too much like Turtles, but eventually I got into the show a bit. I remember bringing over my newly bought Metal Armor Leonardo to this kids house and we watched Gargoyles.

Didn't have as many Spider-man TAS figures, but I did have my fair share. Shocker was and still is my favorite of the line.

Here's a question, did anyone else ever have a giant battle with all your figures, I remember I had TMNT Vs. G.I. Joe Vs. X-Men Vs. Power Rangers Vs. Spider-man Vs. STAR WARS, heroes and villain in an all out war in the basement. If I remember right I think I actually had the Villains from each property join together, then the corresponding heroes joined forces with each other, the heroes won, but there were a lot of casualties that day, I think I had all the Power Rangers die, TMNT suffered the lowest loss of men, god it was so much fun.

I still do...sad but true. Shredder even has connections with Cap and Wolvie in that he fought them in WW2....am I sad or what?

Yeah, but that's why we love you. :D

But yeah doing stuff like alternate universes were all the characters are connected somehow was always great.

I haven't cross-connected figures in battles, in fact the only toy I've "played with" recently are 3.75 inch GI joe figures. Those things are awesome to throw around and just have a blast. Unfortunately I keep breaking them so I gotta chill from playing with any toys.

Haven't played with TMNT since I was a kid. The new toys are just not "play" friendly, or I just don't care about them, and the old toys are stashed away in boxes. I do push Toon Leo's button every friggin day to make his eyes pop out. I love that action feature to this day.

I still think that playing with toys is no worse than playing a video game or an RPG or writing a fanfic or something. Nothing wrong with it, stimulates the imagination. I bet Lucas was playing with some toys and was like "hmm I should give my toys names and give them a universe" and thus star wars was born ;) (kidding, I don't know where star wars came from, probably a mushroom or lsd or something)

Just bought this guy today:
http://onlineconsignmentsolutions.co...05/cobracf.jpg

Cool, nice find and in real good condition too. Mine is packed away with the rest in the closet, suffocating.

Yeah I paid a bit more for him, but the condition looks so great that I splurged. I never had this figure, the earliest cobra commander I ever had was the hooded mail away from '83, and that I got from Yahoo Auctions back when people used to actually use that site. This one is most definitely my favorite, I love the sky blue, the helmet, and just everything about him. Doesn't hurt that this was the most prominent suit the commander used in the cartoon.

They really REALLY need to reissue this guy so I can have one to fiddle with and put on display. This one is most definitely going in the storage box to never be touched or looked at, which is a shame, but I'm just glad to know I have it.

Here's a question for you all: Who is your favorite Joe/Cobra?

Joe: Snake Eyes.

Cobra: Destro.

Most Valued figure: '85 Snake Eyes, MLC.

That figure looks nice, Ecto. Hopefully I can find him at my local comic book store or the collectible store right next to it.

Joes: Snake Eyes, Gung Ho, Dusty, and Nunchaku.

Cobras: Storm Shadow, Destro, Cobra B.A.T., and Firefly.

Weapon: What's MLC mean?

Yeah that is an awesome condition Commander, I got it at a deal for $20 I think, as I've seen worse condition commanders go for the same amount (ones with paint scratches on the helmet and such).


Anyone remember these guys?
http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/7...agbunch8oe.png

I used to have a bunch of those figures.

To bring this back to TMNT, I though I'd post a prototype from the new line that isn't often seen. I probably posted it on this site before, but I'll post it again so people who missed it can see it.
http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/6...leotoy10zy.jpg

and another
http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/4...leotoy25od.jpg

I remember being on the technodrome before the new revival and we literally had nothing, no new toys, comics, cartoons, ANYTHING and when I saw this it was the first toy I really couldn't wait to have, but wait I did as it was almost a year before it came out. The finished product I think looks better overall, but this would have been perfect for old school mirage customs.

I remember going to KB because I was calling around stores asking if they got TMNT toys yet, and they said they only had the new 12" figures. I drove out an hour away from my house, and bought a case of the 4 figures (they even gave me the box) and got an extra Leo. Them was awesome times.

Mint Loose Complete.

I got him at a Toy Show for only $10, Snakes is alays the most expensive, especially the '85 version, I'd say $10 was more then a steal.

http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/9...rd1crop5oo.jpghttp://img364.imageshack.us/img364/1...rd7crop1mi.jpg

http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/4...dtank1c5sh.jpg

http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/3...pultb1c6ox.jpg

Barnyard Commandos

In the heartland of America, the reminants of a secret military experiment have been burried for many years. This was soon to change. One day, strange things started happening down on the farm. Farmer Bob's latest crop of grain had an odd glow to it. After eating some of the grain the Pigs and Sheep started acting kindof funny. Some started driving the tractors around like tanks, others started digging trenches. Soon after an all out war erupted, between the Barnyard Commandos!!!

They really should still release a set of those! But I am sure they are more a collector and a comic book sell, and the kiddie market it what they are after! I would definitely buy them though!

It's basically the same body but with a different more mirage old school head sculpt, similar to what we got with the statue. I too would buy it only because the chances of us getting that head sculpt are zip to none.

BARNYARD COMMANDOS! I love those guys, a similar toyline put out at about the same time by Mattel called Food Fighter was awesome too. It was like hamburgers and cookies vs hot dogs and tacos. They had arms and legs and guns like GI Joe almost.

Anyone remember Mighty Max the cartoon? I didn't like the toys but the cartoon ROCKED!

I don't remember Mighty Max a whole lot but I have one of the playsets from it. I have the triceratops one and it's missin' most of the pieces. I also got some of the little playsets from McDonald's and some of 'em at garage sales.

Is that head sculpt a variant? I'd like to see a Mikey one like that. I'd buy him even if he was hard to find.

Looks like a WB TMNT toy prototype...
http://www.ninjaturtles.com/warner/leoface.jpg

Real Ghostbusters.

Based off the cool cartoon which was based from the first hit movie, the toy line gave us the four Busters them selves Egon, Ray, Peter, and Winston, and few ghosts, but the line was bombarded by endless repaints and figures with "Frightened" action features which made the guy's seem like scaredy cats which was not cool, also many cool ghosts from the cartoon like "The Boogyman", "The Sandman", and "The Headless Horseman" didn't get figures. the line was saved by the two story Firehouse HQ and the Ecto-1 vehicle. They could have used a little more articulation too.

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/7...riginal6el.jpg

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/271...fright23wm.jpg

German ads....:P Nice touch....:P

Yeah, I thought so too. :lol:

I have a bunch of the ghostbusters figures, but definitely not all of them.

That Leo wasn't a variant, it was a prototype. I was thinking the same thing, it being based off the non-existant WB show.

Made in 1988 by Mattel, Food Fighters were an army of hot dogs, french fries, pancakes, pizzas, hamburgers and other leftovers. The Food Fighters were basically different snacks that had arms, legs and faces -Each was armed with a wacky name and an accessory. Good guy's were "Kitchen Commandos" and the bad were the "Refrigerator Rejects".


Kitchen Commandos:

Burgerdier General
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/4...ershamc4gu.jpg

Major Munch
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/7...sdoughc8rq.jpg

Private Pizza
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/3...spizzac1lk.jpg

Combat Carton
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/2...rstankc4up.jpg

Refrigerator Rejects:

Short Stack
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/6...erspanc3wl.jpg

Fat Frenchy
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/6...sfriesc2be.jpg

Mean Weener
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/1...ersdogc6fv.jpg

BBQ Bomber
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/7...ersbbqc9rw.jpg

Those were just a few of the insane Food Fighting toy's by Mattel.

Thanks for the good times.

:)

FOOD FIGHTERS!!!!

I finally picked up Gen today at Target, only one they had, last figure I needed for the tmnt 2k3 line.

I saw all the new Transformers: Cybertron, but honestly I wasn't impressed, they looked neat but the Alternators are where it's really at. Anything cybertron just pales in comparison unfortunately.

Finally picked up the GI Joe TRU exclusive 6 pack: The arctic mission force pack with snake eyes, frostbite, mirage, stalker, backblast, and one other dude who's name escapes me. I think it's a pretty decent set actually. It snowed today, first REAL snow we've had this year so it was ironic that I picked up the arctic set right before it snowed.

Picked up the turtle tracker, the zanramon cruiser, and some turtle pez (leo and don). I got the two vehicles at half off so it was $20 for both of them, a sweet score I thought.

My best pick up of black friday (today) is the laptop I'm posting on, IT ROCKS!

Today was just a great day, hope everyone else got some great stuff too!

"Marvel Super Heroes"

Made by Toy Biz in 1990-94.

Althoguh detail and poseability were minimal, the wide variety of characters in the line were "Marvel Legends" in their own right. It saw the first toy appearence of big stars like "The Punisher", "Venom", and "The Silver Surfer", as well as nobodies like Annihilus, Deathlok, and U.S. Agent. They also had cool action features. The Hulk bent steel, Punisher fired caps all over the place, and Daredevil shook his cane with utter fearlessness. The lines 22 different characters beat out Mego and Mattels previous Marvel assortments by a wide margin. There were also vehicles and playsets.

http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/5...rvcapta7iu.jpg http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/9...edevil11nc.jpg

http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/6...ironman3vg.jpg http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/2...idshoot5qq.jpg

http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/2...aptacar5eu.jpg

that is one good lookin spidey

"C.O.P.S. N Crooks"

Enter a future time where crime is rampant. A national cartel headed by the ever elusive Big Boss is responsible for much of the activity. He has enlisted some of the nations most notorious criminals to do his bidding. They are known to be involved in armed robbery, interstate transportation of stolen goods, extortion, racketeering, counterfeiting schemes, and loan sharking amongst other offenses. The Police were unable to stop the ever increasing crime wave. Thus, the Central Organization of Police Specialists (C.O.P.S. for short) was formed. They work to put the Big Boss and his minions behind bars for good.

Rroduced by Hasbro in 1988, they tied into the cartoon of the same name and characters.

Hasbro's genius idea was to combine cap guns and action figures. Most figures came with a ton of accessories, at least one of which fired caps, and some incorporated the tiny red noisemakers in really cool ways, like Sgt. Mace's cap-firing bazooka or Dr. Badvibes cap-shooting robot. It was the perfect way to capture the action packed mayhem portrayed on the tv series. In addition, each figure was highly poseable(16 points!!!!) in a time when articulated wrists were few and far between. The line also featured a ton of vehicles, both big and small.

On the bad side, many important characters from the cartoon went unmade, including all of the female characters(Sorry Ms. Demeanor.). Additionally, the line had sparse paint apps.

some C.O.P.S and Crooks:

http://img500.imageshack.us/img500/1...od1crop3xk.jpg


http://img500.imageshack.us/img500/6...ad1crop8so.jpg